Expert Group on the Recommended Definition of a General Nuclear Database Structure (GNDS)

WPEC Expert Group – EGGNDS

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EG-GNDS mandate (last updated July 2020)

Chair: Caleb Mattoon (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, US)

EG-GNDS mailing list

• Archive of EG-GNDS past mail
• Members of the EG-GNDS mailing list

Documents

• Specifications for the Generalised Nuclear Database Structure (GNDS) Version 1.9
• GNDS-1.9 XML Schema
• Detailed requirements for a next generation nuclear data structure
• Procedure for the Proposal and Approval of Changes to the GNDS Specifications [NEA/NSC/WPEC/DOC(2019)1]
• NEA GitLab Guidance for the GNDS project [NEA/NSC/WPEC/DOC(2020)10]

Meetings

[Meetings from 2022 onward are on the NEA MyNEA SharePoint system]

• Chateau de la Muette, OECD Conference Centre, Paris XVI, 10 May 2022
• Zoom meeting, 8 December 2021
• WebEx meeting, 9-10 November 2020
• WebEx meeting, 12 May 2020
• NEA Headquarters, Boulogne-Billancourt, France, 25 June 2019
• ND2019, China National Convention Center, Beijing, China, 23 May 2019
• NEA, OECD Conference Centre, Paris, France, 15 May 2018
• NEA, OECD Conference Centre, Paris, France, 15 May 2017

Links

• WPEC/SG38: Beyond the ENDF format: A modern nuclear database structure
• WPEC/SG43: Code infrastructure to support a modern general nuclear database (GND) structure
• NEA GitLab space for EG-GNDS (Please contact wpec@oecd-nea.org if you do not have access permissions)

Webinar on the launch of the GNDS specifications

The NEA hosted an expert roundtable webinar on GNDS on 8 July 2020. The discussion was be moderated by William D. Magwood, IV, NEA Director‑General and Dr David Brown (BNL), Chair of the NEA Expert Group on the Recommended Definition of a General Nuclear Database Structure (GNDS). The panellists included:

• Dr Osamu Iwamoto (JAEA)
• Dr Jean‑Christophe Sublet (IAEA)
• Dr Dorothea Wiarda (ORNL)
• Dr Caleb Mattoon (LLNL)
• Dr Fausto Malvagi (CEA)

Contact

For more information, please contact: Michael Fleming

Last update: 23 March 2022